Biology:Pachystachys lutea
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Short description: Species of plant
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Acanthaceae |
| Genus: | Pachystachys |
| Species: | P. lutea
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| Binomial name | |
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Pachystachys lutea, known as the golden shrimp plant or lollipop plant, is a tropical, soft-stemmed evergreen shrub between 0.5 and 2.5 meters tall, native to Peru.[1][2] The zygomorphic, long-throated, short-lived white flowers emerge sequentially from overlapping bright yellow bracts on racemes that are produced throughout the warm months.[1]
The Latin specific epithet lutea means “yellow”.[3]
It is cultivated as an ornamental, but in cold temperate regions it requires protection from temperatures below 10 °C (50 °F).[4] It has won the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.[4][5]
Close up of the bracts
Flowers emerging from the bract
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References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Pachystachys lutea". October 1999. http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/shrubs/PACLUTA.PDF.
- ↑ Wasshausen, D. C. (1986). "The systematics of the genus Pachystachys (Acanthaceae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99 (1): 160–185.
- ↑ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "RHS Plantfinder - Pachystachys lutea". https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/74937/i-Pachystachys-lutea-i/Details.
- ↑ "AGM Plants - Ornamental". Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 71. https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/pdfs/agm-lists/agm-ornamentals.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q938691 entry
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